Natina Yaduma
Contact Details
Economics, School of Social Sciences
3rd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
E-mail: natina.yaduma@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Background
Natina Yaduma is currently a PhD student in the University of Manchester. He majors in Environmental Economics and he is being jointly supervised by Prof. Ada Wossink and Dr. Mika Kortelainen.
Prior to his PhD training, Natina had an MSc in Economics from the same department he undertakes his PhD research. He graduated from this programme with a merit in 2009. His MSc thesis investigated the pecuniary losses borne by the Nigerian economy via the flaring of natural gas. In addition, the study analysed and suggested cost-effective strategies of mitigating flaring based on theoretical prescriptions and real world experiences.
Further, Natina had his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. He graduated from this program with a second class honours (upper division) in 2006. His undergraduate thesis explored the impact fiscal decentralisation on economic growth in Nigeria. Contrary to theoretical expectations, this study found that fiscal decentralisation is not growth enhancing in Nigeria. Administrative ineffectiveness, corruption and low per-capita income levels are some of the reasons explaining the growth impairing effect of fiscal decentralisation in Nigeria.
Finally, from February 2010 Natina has been working as a graduate teaching assistant in the same department he undertakes his PhD training. Prior to this, he worked in the sales department of Oceanic Bank Int’l Plc Nigeria from November 2007-September 2008.
PhD Research
Natina’s current research delves into estimating the health and economic costs of air pollution. With an emphasis on the most hazardous air pollutant – particulate pollution – his PhD thesis entiled “The Quest for Development and its Effect on Human Health, Environment and Natural Resources” employs the exposure-response function and meta-regression analysis in assessing the mortality effect of particulate air pollution in Nigeria. In recent times, the exposure response function serves as an effective tool in assessing the mortality costs of air pollution. In a bid to monetarise these mortality costs, another branch of his research employs a meta-regression analysis – a statistical tool of growing popularity in environmental and health economics research – in estimating Nigeria’s value of statistical life. Further, his research investigates the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis using a relatively new panel technique employed in investigating the subject – the quantile fixed effects regression method – and explores the Resource Curse Hypothesis in OPEC nations.